For the first time ever, scientists detected planets outside our galaxy. You read that right. But on reading that — or many of the other breathless headlines on the subject — the mind reels with ...

Across the observable universe, galaxies advertise themselves in radio waves for familiar reasons-magnetic fields, cosmic ...

The Milky Way galaxy is currently racing through space at about 2 million km/h (1.2 million mph), on a journey towards a gravitational anomaly known as the Great Attractor, which is in turn being ...

The Milky Way is apparently a hotspot for stars immigrating from other galaxies. In a new study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a trio of astronomers set out to find ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For the first time, astronomers have observed a disc around a young ...

Last week, an international team of over 400 researchers from 18 nations finally confirmed that high-energy cosmic rays are not coming from inside the Milky Way Galaxy, but instead from somewhere ...

Scientists have found a vast “extragalactic structure” hidden behind the Milky Way. The structure has been hidden because it is in the so-called “zone of avoidance”. That is the part of space that is ...

The finding offers tantalizing clues in the ongoing quest to piece together the origins of ORCs—mysterious, ring-shaped radio signals from space. Reading time 2 minutes For lovers of cool astronomy ...

If you got a sunburn at the beach this summer, you can put 0.000000001 percent of the blame on radiation from beyond the galaxy. Every second, every square meter of Earth is bombarded by about 10 ...

A collection of flesh, blood and bone — or extragalactic matter spouted from supernova explosions in galaxies light years away? Northwestern University researchers say it could be the latter in a ...

For the first time ever, astrophysicists have spotted exoplanets outside the Milky Way galaxy in an astonishing example of the power of gravitational lensing. The University of Oklahoma astrophysics ...